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Boone Newspapers
Boone Newspapers, Incorporated (BNI) is the parent company of a publishing business that includes dozens newspapers as well as magazines, other published materials, and internet properties in the United States. It is a private company and owns papers in smaller cities in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. The company is based in Tuscaloosa. Todd H. Carpenter is chief executive officer and James B. Boone, Jr. is chairman of the board. Boone and his family own all of the company's stock according to its website. After owning Tuscaloosa Newspapers Inc., Boone's father eventually took over the company and purchased additional papers. In 2014, Boone Newspapers bought several newspapers from Evening Post Industries. Newspapers Boone Newspapers include: * '' The'' (Danville) ''Advocate-Messenger'' * ''Albert Lea Tribune'' * ''Alexander City Outlook'' * (Lake Charles) ''American Press'' * ''The And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Port Arthur News
''The Port Arthur News'' is six-day morning newspaper published every day except Mondays in Port Arthur, Texas, covering Jefferson County. It is owned by Boone Newspapers. The newspaper has not missed an issue since March 17, 1897, when the Stump family, leaving Missouri, printed the first weekly edition in a baggage car of a train on the way to their new home. ''The News'' went daily (except Sunday) in 1901, and a Sunday edition was added in 1916 (although it was later abandoned, and then reintroduced). By 1920, all of Port Arthur's other newspapers had either folded or been bought out by ''The News''. A Texas newspaper chain begun by E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh bought ''The News'' in 1921, overseeing headquarters and press improvements, until Cox Enterprises bought it in 1976. Cox converted ''The News'' from an afternoon paper to morning publication in 1986. In 1991, Cox sold ''The News'', along with its sister paper '' The Orange Leader'', to American Publishing Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Daily News
The ''Washington Daily News'' is an American, English language daily newspaper headquartered in and serving Washington, North Carolina and Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was established in 1909. The paper also uses Facebook for sharing news and interacting with readers. The paper won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles that showed the city's water was Water pollution, contaminated and had been for eight years. The newspaper was then family-owned. It had a circulation of 8,644 Monday through Saturday and 8,829 on Sunday as of Sept. 30, 2019. The newspaper was owned and published by the Futrell family from 1949 until 2010. On June 16, 2010, the Futrell family announced the sale of the ''Washington Daily News'' to Washington Newsmedia LLC, a new company affiliated Boone Newspapers, Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Boone Newspapers also owns the ''Tryon Daily Bulletin'', ''The Stanly News and Press, The Stanley News and Press'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanett, Alabama
Lanett is a city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 6,468, down from 7,897 in 2000. Lanett, originally called Bluffton, is located in eastern Alabama, on the Chattahoochee River, southwest of Atlanta. The city's name is derived from Lafayette Lanier and Theodore Bennett, founders of the West Point Manufacturing Company. Geography Lanett is located on the eastern edge of Chambers County at 32°51'48.326" North, 85°11'58.862" West (32.863424, -85.199684). Its eastern boundary is the Alabama–Georgia state line, with the town of West Point, Georgia, bordering Lanett to the east. Interstate 85 forms the southeast boundary of Lanett, with the city of Valley, Alabama, on the other side of the highway. The unincorporated community of Huguley is along Lanett's southwest border. The Chattahoochee River forms the state line and eastern boundary of Lanett from I-85 north to the downtown area, at which point the state line turns north-northw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tryon Daily Bulletin
''Tryon Daily Bulletin'' is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina; it also serves parts of Spartanburg and Greenville counties in South Carolina. History Known as "The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper", it was established in 1928 by Seth Vining Sr. It had a readership of 4,250 in 2019 and its website had 30,000 visitors. Jeff Byrd purchased the paper in 1989 and sold it in 2010 to Boone Newspapers Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Its offices are housed in the Bank of Tryon Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The paper doesn't carry any wire stories; as its publisher, Jeff Byrd, said in 1993, "It's all local. It's a community paper. That's what people want here." It features columns from 15 local residents, reader photos, a large letters to the editor section and a community calendar. See also * List of newspapers in North Carolina There have been newspapers in North Carolina since the ''Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidewater News
''Tidewater News'' is a newspaper based in Franklin, Virginia covering Franklin, Southampton County and Isle of Wight County Isle of Wight County is a county located in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It was named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, th .... Since November, 2006, it has been published three days a week. External linksThe ''Tidewater News'' Newspapers published in Virginia Franklin, Virginia {{Virginia-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The State Journal (Frankfort)
The State Journal is a midsize daily broadsheet newspaper mainly serving Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, and Franklin County. the paper prints Tuesday through Friday plus one weekend edition. and has a circulation of 6,100–7,300. Due to financial stresses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the newspaper reduced their print schedule to twice a week and beefed up their online delivery and services. The editor Chanda Veno, who has held the position since December 2018, is the first female editor in the paper's lengthy history (founded in 1900). Carl West, a graduate of University of Kentucky (1966) and member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame (2003), was the longtime editor of the newspaper, serving from 1979 to 2012. __FORCETOC__ History In 1900, John Meloan established ''The Kentucky State Journal'', an eight-page, six-column Democratic morning daily. In 1908, Graham Vreeland established the ''Frankfort News''. In 1911, both papers united to become ''The Frankfort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Daily News
The ''Southwest Daily News'' is an American tri-weekly newspaper published Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Sulphur, Louisiana. Previously owned by GateHouse Media, it was sold to the owners of the ''Lake Charles American Press'' in 2016. Boone Newspapers acquired the ''American Press'' and the ''Daily News'' in 2020. The paper formerly published daily. It covers Sulphur and surrounding portions of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Calcasieu Parish (; french: Paroisse de Calcasieu) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 216,785. The parish seat is Lake Charles. Calcasieu Parish is part of ...; it also owns three weekly newspapers covering other communities in the parish: ''The Moss Bluff News'' in Moss Bluff, the ''Vinton News'' in Vinton and ''The Westlake News'' in Westlake. References External links * Newspapers published in Louisiana Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Newspapers establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Times-Journal
The ''Selma Times-Journal'' is a five-day-a-week newspaper located in Selma, Alabama. It publishes every day of the week except Sunday and Monday. The Saturday paper is called the "Weekend Edition." It is owned by Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Boone Newspapers Inc. History The paper was founded as the ''Selma Courier'' on November 2, 1827, by Thomas Jefferson Frow.From Courier to Times-Journal ''Selma Times-Journal'' (November 12, 2010). The newspaper was later known by various names, including the ''Selma Free Press'', ''Selma Reporter'', and ''Selma Daily News''. During the , the newspaper's press was torched by |
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
The ''Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald'' was founded as a newspaper in 1914 as the Ahoskie Patriot and now serves the rural North Carolina communities of Bertie, Hertford, Northampton and Gates counties, including the towns of Ahoskie, Murfreesboro and Windsor. It is published on Wednesday and Saturday. The paper gets its name from the location of its primary region of distribution between the Roanoke River and Chowan River in Northeastern North Carolina, a location that includes Bertie, Hertford, and Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ... counties. The inclusion of Gates County is the result of a merger with the Gates County Index. Media General sold the paper to Boone Newspapers Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala in 2000. References {{Boone Newspapers Newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picayune Item in 2013.
Starting July 5, 2023, the newspaper will transition from publishing five print editions a week to only one.
The ''Picayune Item'' is a five-day daily newspaper published in Picayune, Mississippi, United States, covering Pearl River County and parts of Hancock County, Mississippi. It publishes in the evening, Tuesday through Friday, and on Sunday mornings. History Boone Newspapers purchased the newspaper from Community Newspaper Holdings CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin, References External links ''Picayune Item'' Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
